The Ramakrishna Mission schools have been demanding the autonomy for long, the chief minister added.

The schools run by the mission are state-aided and all such schools must recruit teachers through the school service commission in accordance with the West Bengal School Service Commission Act, 1997. The government must get the act amended to allow a school to bypass the commission. “The ordinance amending the act had to be issued as the Assembly is not in session,” said a source.

Mamata had on July 30 promised to pass an ordinance granting recruitment autonomy to mission schools.